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Roots

The Saga of an American Family

By:
Alex Haley

Narrated by:
Avery Brooks

Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,244

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
3,170

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,195

Why we think it’s a great listen: A masterpiece like none other, Brooks’ powerful performance of Haley’s words has been known to leave listeners in tears. It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.

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Sounder

By:
William H. Armstrong

Narrated by:
Avery Brooks

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
213

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
170

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
169

A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film,
Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, Sounder, return to the cabin empty-handed.

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Disappearing Acts

By:
Terry McMillan

Narrated by:
Terry McMillan,
Avery Brooks

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Abridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
98

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
84

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
82

Franklin is a construction worker who says he's tired of women and their demands. Zora is a struggling singer who also claims to have lost interest in romance. But when these hard-shelled survivors cross paths, the outcome is electric and perplexing. Beyond the joy of sex, Franklin and Zora see the possibility of a solid, lasting relationship; the trouble is, they're far from sure of how to get there.

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Roots

The Saga of an American Family

By:
Alex Haley

Narrated by:
Avery Brooks

Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins

Abridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
31

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
28

Story

5 out of 5 stars
28

It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

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Roots

By:
Alex Haley

Narrated by:
Avery Brooks

Length: 30 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
18

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
17

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
17

Tracing his ancestory through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.